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Daniel Ramos

Daniel Ramos

Daniel Ramos

Daniel Ramos, Cebreros, Spain


Winemaker Daniel Ramos

Region Gredos

Country Spain

Soil Type Granite and schist

Main Varieties Garnacha, Albillo Real

Daniel Ramos

The old, abandoned vineyards in the Gredos where the Garnacha grape variety dominates have drawn the curiosity and spurred the imagination of the more adventurous winemakers in Spain over the last 15 years to explore the extreme nature of this rugged terroir.

Now Gredos is less abandoned and most emphatically on Spain’s viticultural map with a burgeoning scene of small wineries, where Garnacha wines express the soul of this unique high altitude, largely granitic landscape.

Aussie-born winemaker Daniel Ramos is one of those adventurers.

Known to his mates as Kapi (El Capitan), Daniel exudes a quiet and deep enthusiasm for his homeland. His family are from San Martin de Valdeiglesias so from the age of 11 he grew up surrounded by this dramatic landscape, and his people. This would later inspire him to work with Telmo Rodriguez as a newly trained winemaker.

In 2010 Daniel went alone to explore abandoned plots in the El Tiemblo and San Martin areas.

In early 2016 I decided to seek out Daniel after I read a superb article by Andrew Jefford the year before. So much of what Andrew described about what was being discovered in the Gredos and of Daniel’s approach chimed with me and seemed to align with our ethos as an importer. His tasting notes on Daniel’s wines struck a chord with us and our visit just confirmed this.

In September 2016 we shipped our first consignment.

Daniel manages to give his Garnachas multiple threads of flavour and a scary depth. He sums up his winemaking approach by saying “I feel my way through observation, feel and intuition and making sure that in the winery interventions only help the creation of each wine’s intrinsic character”.

 Most of all he achieves remarkable balance -nothing added and nothing taken away

His K⫪ (Kapi) wines are made using old clay amphorae. Time in bottle gives these Garnachas a magical, ethereal quality.

His ancient vines Albillo Real, KaPi Real and Viento Zephyros is unique for its richness, power and balance.

His “village” wines are the Berrakin sourced from managed plots around San Martin and Sotillo de la Adrada. These are engaging and excitingly delicate.

Los Chorrancos (schist soils) of El Tiemblo and the 950m high El Altar granite plot in the Alto Alberche valley give us two very different yet extraordinarily complex facets of Garnacha from single plots.

 

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